Letters to the editor

Letter: A fresh air weekend?

Posted:
09/19/2017 11:02:42 AM MDT

Editor,

How is it the air was so fresh and clean for all who visited our town during the Fall Harvest Car Show and Pedal the Plains last weekend? Nary a whiff of the stink about which there's been such complaints.

Then with windows open in the house Monday night I'm awakened again by the dog's stench of ripe food that hadn't sat well in its stomach, and we're back to the norm.

Do we have our county commissioners to thank for the brief respite of clean air where the strongest odor was barbecue enticing spectators to the food court by City Park? No, because during the long summer they've chosen a low profile and done nothing to find the solution for county residents they were elected to represent.

Unless there was talk with Western Sugar, advising them that for at least two days they were to find a way to be good citizens and allow our town to put on a good face, a deceptive face, to those visitors who might consider returning another time, believing all issues of air pollution have been solved.

Is it sad to think our shining moment may have been the stink of money, those who could do something all the time, merely preserving the stink of money, nothing to do with the welfare of residents at all?

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